The Rover V8 engine is an eight cylinder, water cooled cast aluminium cylinder block withaluminium cylinder heads. The cylinder bank consist of steel liners which are presseddown to stops in the cylinder block and are set at 90° to each other. The crankshaft iscarried in five main bearings. Adn end-float is controlled by the thrust faces of the uppercentre main bearing shell.

The centrally located camshaft is driven by the crankshaft via an inverted tooth chain.The valves are operated by rockers, pushrods and hydraulic tappets. Distributor drive isby skew gear from the front of the camshaft. The aluminium alloy, pistons have twocompression rings and an oil control ring and are secured to the connecting rods by semi-floating gudgeon pins. On later 4.2L engines the gudgeon pin is offset 0.5mm, identifiedby an arrow mark on the piston crown, which must always point to the front of theengine. Plain, big-end bearing shells are fitted to each connecting rod.

The Rover V8 engine is an eight cylinder, water cooled cast aluminium cylinderblock with aluminium cylinder heads. The cylinder bank consist of steel liners whichare pressed down to stops in the cylinder block and are set at 90° to each other.The crankshaft is carried in five main bearings. Adn end-float is controlled by thethrust faces of the upper centre main bearing shell.

The centrally located camshaft is driven by the crankshaft via an inverted toothchain. The valves are operated by rockers, pushrods and hydraulic tappets.Distributor drive is by skew gear from the front of the camshaft. The aluminiumalloy, pistons have two compression rings and an oil control ring and are secured tothe connecting rods by semi-floating gudgeon pins. On later 4.2L engines thegudgeon pin is offset 0.5mm, identified by an arrow mark on the piston crown,which must always point to the front of the engine. Plain, big-end bearing shellsare fitted to each connecting rod.